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# בֶּלַע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1106

**Bela** — used 12 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Bela [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1106/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בֶּ֫לַע²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1106/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. בֶּלַע Gn 36:32 = 1 Ch 1:43; בָּ֑לַע Gn 36:33 = 1 Ch 1:44 a king of Edom, ב׳ בן בעור (cf. בִּלְעָם & Di Gn 36:32). בֶּלַע 1st son of Benjamin Gn 46:21; Nu 26:38, 40; 1 Ch 7:6, 7; 8:1, 3 (בָּ֑לַע). בֶּלַע a Reubenite 1 Ch 5:8.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Bela (9); of Bela (2); \[were\] Bela (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 7:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.6/#tree)

בִּנְיָמִ֗ן בֶּ֧לַע וָבֶ֛כֶר וִידִֽיעֲאֵ֖ל שְׁלֹשָֽׁה׃

*Word for word:* Benjamin \[were\].Bela and Beker and Jediael three

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.

[1 Chronicles 8:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.8.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.8.3/#tree)

וַיִּהְי֥וּ בָנִ֖ים לְבָ֑לַע אַדָּ֥ר וְגֵרָ֖א וַאֲבִיהֽוּד׃

*Word for word:* and they.belonged sons to Bela Addar and Gera and Abihud

*JPS 1917:* And Bela had sons, Addar, and Gera, and Abihud;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1106.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1106/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).